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to: Gautam Lad
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1996-05-26 00:57:48
subject: launching programs

Gautam Lad wrote in a message to **Anybody**:

 GL> How can I lauch PM programs, from a PM program using
 GL> EMX/GCC? I tried system("E test.fil");, but the editor
 GL> doesn't show up.  I tried  system("TEDIT test.fil");, but it
 GL> causes a sys 3184 error (I think). I know system("..."); is
 GL> not right, but I don't know of any other way! 

E.EXE is special for reasons not worth going into.  The best general
solution is to reinvoke the command processor:

   system("CMD /C E TEST.FIL");
 
-- Mike


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